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> Shouldn't we be seeing stuff like this in Steam games where Steam could easily expose your progress between other Steam games. Amusingly, Valve has already e
by duskwuff 4y ago
> Shouldn't we be seeing stuff like this in Steam games where Steam could easily expose your progress between other Steam games.
Amusingly, Valve has already experimented with this (and, as far as I can tell, given up on it). There were a handful of in-game items in Team Fortress 2 which were given to players as a reward for purchasing certain games, or for completing specific achievements in those games.
- astrange 4y agoThis made TF2 unplayable for me - I have a rare item (iPod earbuds) from the initial Mac launch, and the next few times I signed in I couldn’t get away from people spamming me to trade them. This is one reason you wouldn’t be a crypto billionaire no matter how prices went up; you’d probably sell first.
- TimJRobinson 4y agoThis was an argument why email will never work too. Spam filtering will get better over time.
- duskwuff 4y agoMaybe for email. TF2's spam filtering got worse -- the game is now overrun with malicious bots, and is unplayable on public servers.
- astrange 4y agoThat’s actually why email is centralized now. Gmail’s good spam filtering works because it can see what’s going to every account. Some email providers (Hey in the US) don’t accept emails from other senders without prior authorization from the user. IIRC Chinese providers won’t accept any of yours unless you have a contract with them.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> This was an argument why email will never work too No, it wasn't. Email was popular and established before spam became a big concern. Though spam, and the necessary control mechanisms, is one reason email had become less central.
- TimJRobinson 4y agoYea and then when spam came out there were hundreds of articles that Email is becoming useless because of it. We encounter new problems, then we build solutions, that's how progress works.
- danaris 4y agoBut NFTs and their ilk still don't actually solve any of the problems we have today. So please stop moving the goalposts.